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Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.
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Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?
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Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.
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Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.
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Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music.
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?
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The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus.
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Shut Up and Play your Guitar.
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Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
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Information doesn't kill you.
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I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.
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Gave my money all to you, took my watch and pawned it, too.
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Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.
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Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
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I'm in a big dilemma about my Big-Leg Emma.
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